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Sunday, October 1, 2017

The Silent Film of John Gilbert

Jerome Storm began directing drama in 1918 with the C. Gardner Sullivan screenplay "The Keys of the Righteous", starring Enid Bennett and produced by Thomas Ince. In 1923 he directed John Gilbert and Ruth Clifford in the six reel film "Truxton King". The Library of Congress reports no archival copies of the film, leaving it presumed to be lost.

During 1923 John Gilbert also appeared in the film "Cameo Kirby", directed by John Ford. In the film, Gilbert plays romantic lead to actress Gertrude Olmstead.
Edmund Mortimer paired John Gilbert with actress Betty Boulton and actress Margaret Fielding in the film "The Exiles" during 1923.

An early film starring John Gilbert and Norma Shearer, "The Wolfman", directed by Edmund Mortimer in 1924 is among the myriad of films thought to be lost from the silent era.
King Vidor in 1924 paired John Gilbert and actress Aileen Pringle in two films, "Wife of the Centaur", with Kate Lester, and "His Hour". Norwegian film director Tancred Ibsen while briefly in Hollywood, worked on the set design to the Vidor film "His Hour".

Director Monta Bell that year directed John Gilbert and Norma Shearer in "The Snob" (seven reels).

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Victor Sjostrom

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More properly the headlines should read, "Garbo Talks, Seastrom Returns Home." Victor Seastrom, who had worked in the Swedish theater before pioneering in Swedish Film, returned to Sweden with the advent of the sound film, not to direct, but to act. As in Hollywood, the exterior of the Swedish landscape that had established Sjostrom, Stiller and Molander during the golden age of Swedish Silent Film, had taken the innovation of sound back to the proscenium arc of the interior with Molander managing the transition to dialogue centered films.

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Greta Garbo emailed to the present author from original negative by Mark A, Vieria

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Scanned from the original negative and emailed to the present author by Mark A Vieira

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Scanned from the original negative and emailed to the present author by Mark A Vieira

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Scanned from the original negative and emailed to the present author by Mark A. Vieira

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Scanned from the original negative

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Greta Garbo from original negative

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emailed by Mark A. Vieira, author of Greta Garbo, A Cinematic Legacy

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scanned from original negative, emailed by author of Greta Garbo, Cinematic Legacy

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emailed to the present author by Mark A AVieira, author of Greta Garbo, A Cinematic Legacy

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Greta Garbo Scanned from the original negative and emailed to the present author by Mark A Vieira

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original negative emailed from author of Greta Garbo, A Cinematic Legacy

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Greta Garbo from original negative

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Scanned from the original negative and emailed to the present author by Mark A Vieira

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Greta Garbo Scanned from original negative, emailed by the author of Greta Garbo, A Cinematic Legacy

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Greta Garbo in Wild Orchids scanned from original negative

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"More to have fun with", Scanned from the original negative and emailed to the present author by Mark A Vieira

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Greta Garbo with Director Clarence Bown

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Victor Sjostrom

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Swedish Silent Film

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While writing about the film Wild Strawberries, director Jorn Donner notes that Ingmar Bergman's film is in part a tribute to Victor Sjostrom the director,"Many scenes have a tie-in with Victor Sjsotrom's work. A smashed watch plays a part in Karin Ingmarsdottar."

Following Greta Garbo, Scandinavian Film

A sincere thank you to each of the several Danish professors involved in the fantastic online course on Scandinavian Film and Television given by Professor Ib Bondeberg offered by the University of Copenhagen

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Vivtor Sjostrom travelled from Sweden to direct Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson in The Divine Woman under the name of Victor Seastrom. The film is considered lost, there being no existing copies of the film other that a fairly recently discovered fragment. Sjostrom's photographer for the film was Oliver Marsh.
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Victor Sjostrom

Several of the films directed by Victor Sjostrom use artistic experiments in camera technique conducive to conveying symbolic meaning and dramatically charged images, among them being Masks of the Devil, with John Gilbert, and the earlier Kiss of Death, made in Sweden. Victor Sjostrom had begun on stage as an actor in Sweden and appears both on screen as well as from behind the camera. it is an obvious tribute to The Phantom Carriage that Ingmar Bergman includes the actor Victor Sjostrom in a symbolic scene during Wild Strawberries. In his autobiography Images, Ingmar Berman regrets that his workbook to the screenplay to Wild Strawberries had been lost, but he continues to acknowledge the influence of Sjostrom as a director while he moved "spontaneously between different planes-time-space,dream-reality....the hearse that overturns with the coffin bursting open."
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